Singer-songwriter Allison Russell was on the Cayamo Cruise when the legislature back in her adopted home of Tennessee began to rush through a series of anti-lgbtq bills. First, SB1 and HB1, which ban and criminalize healthcare for trans youth, went through, and then the much-discussed drag bills SB3 and HB9 followed. “It was like, Ok, this is the moment. Years later we’ll look back and say, ‘How did it happen?’” Russell tells Rolling Stone.
Russell has written and spoken openly about her experiences as a queer Black woman and survivor of childhood sexual abuse,...
Russell has written and spoken openly about her experiences as a queer Black woman and survivor of childhood sexual abuse,...
- 3/15/2023
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
The lineup yesterday morning on Cmt could not have looked more different than what was queued up at most country radio stations across America: In the network’s morning bloc were videos from Pistol Annies, Tanya Tucker, Maren Morris, and the eternally banned-from-airwaves Dixie Chicks. It was Day Two of Cmt’s new commitment, announced Tuesday, to airing a 50/50 split between videos by female and male artists.
While Cmt was already at a healthy 40/60 ratio, this new initiative serves as a nudge to country radio to do something similarly radical...
While Cmt was already at a healthy 40/60 ratio, this new initiative serves as a nudge to country radio to do something similarly radical...
- 1/24/2020
- by Marissa R. Moss
- Rollingstone.com
“Not a lot of people walk the walk,” said Change the Conversation’s Tracy Gershon at the annual Cmt Next Women of Country event, which took place Tuesday at Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame. “Brandi Carlile runs.”
Gershon was there to help present Carlile with the Impact Award, an “honor presented to a female artist that has impacted songwriting, recording, radio airplay, record sales, streams, media impressions, awards and touring in country music over the past year.” From her Girls Just Wanna Weekend festival to opening for artists...
Gershon was there to help present Carlile with the Impact Award, an “honor presented to a female artist that has impacted songwriting, recording, radio airplay, record sales, streams, media impressions, awards and touring in country music over the past year.” From her Girls Just Wanna Weekend festival to opening for artists...
- 11/13/2019
- by Marissa R. Moss
- Rollingstone.com
AmericanaFest grew to nearly South by Southwest proportions this year, with concerts seemingly going on all day long at venues, backyards, and parking lots across Nashville. Heavy hitters were everywhere, like Brandi Carlile, Tanya Tucker, and the Mavericks, who somehow shoehorned their big band onto two of Nashville’s tiniest stages: the Station Inn and Robert’s Western World. And rising artists, from Che Apalache to Marcus King Band, put in their time, playing gigs in the unrelenting heat of Tennessee’s late summer. Then there was Yola, the U.
- 9/16/2019
- by Jonathan Bernstein, Jon Freeman, Joseph Hudak and Marissa R. Moss
- Rollingstone.com
“That’s a fucking hit,” calls out Dave Cobb in his customary denim uniform, seconds after the last note of the Highwomen’s debut single, “Redesigning Women,” plays through the speakers on the console at RCA Studio A. “There’s no excuse why this can’t be on the radio,” he says, turning toward an elated Brandi Carlile and Amanda Shires, who are both nodding like two parents whose kid just lapped everyone at the track meet, twice. Together with Maren Morris and Natalie Hemby, Carlile and Shires make up...
- 7/19/2019
- by Marissa R. Moss
- Rollingstone.com
It’s well established that women in country music are underrepresented when it comes to radio, award nominations and headline spots at festivals, and now Dr. Stacy L. Smith and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative have some new research data to back it up. Using the year-end Billboard Hot Country charts from 2014 to 2018 and the last five years of the Academy of Country Music Awards, they found that 16% of artists across 500 top country songs from 2014 to 2018 were women, that no women over the age of 40 were represented and that only...
- 4/5/2019
- by Marissa R. Moss
- Rollingstone.com
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